Famous quotes containing the words politburo, standing and/or committee:
“There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“I dont think I shall ever like that Mr. Slope, said Mr. Harding.
Like him! roared the archdeacon, standing still for a moment to give more force to his voice; like him! All the ravens of the close cawed their assent.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (19091993)